Braid Graphics Briefcase
August 27th, 2008
In response to the great fan creations, we’re making available some graphics from Braid. These are the original images created for the game, so … they should look familiar! Sometimes they are at higher resolution than you have seen. Anyway, please enjoy them however you like!
Click here for the collection!
I have really no idea how much use people will find from these. Please comment if you have some suggestions about what else we could offer.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:15 am
personally, i would like a screensaver that is the title screen cityscape scrolling around and around, clouds funneling deep into my monitor, permanent sunset, but probably that would be a lot of work.
i really like the tim8.png, where he’s adjusting his tie (or having a heart attack?), and the asleep on his feet tim6.png. i don’t remember them in the game?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Hi David, Just to let you know - the link to download all wallpapers actually points to the city panorama.
Cheers,
Anthony
August 27th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Matthew, those Tim poses you pointed out are “rare,” but they do happen! The fidgety one is his idle animation that you will see once in a while when Tim’s just standing still. The other one is what shadow Tim does after he runs out of moves to replicate.
Thanks for spotting that, Anthony. It’s fixed now.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am
thank you! i was hoping for some art from you guys! this is why you must support and love indie gaming, because they know how to treat their fans.
also, a screensaver mode in the game would of been a nice extra [just showing the backgrounds animating would of been enough!]
thanks again!
August 29th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
“This being Web 2.0 and all, we thought we’d throw some more material out there for people to use as they like.”
Does that include other independent (but potentially commercial) games? Eg. can they be used for ‘cameos’?
August 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Thanks for putting the art up. Would you also be able to add the castles and flags?
September 1st, 2008 at 8:18 am
Can you please post the wallpapers in 1920 X 1200 resolution for those of us with larger monitors — I would love to use these as my desktop background but they are blurry at 1280.
Thanks!
September 1st, 2008 at 10:40 am
OJ, you can use these however you want!
Michael, I will see what I can do …
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hi Mr. Hellman,
Any chance of adding the rest of the sprites for the goombas? I’d like to put together my own GIF animations for them. Thank you =)
September 5th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Some Princess sprites would rock.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
HMMMM, hm hm hm hm hmmmm …
Yes, they would.
But I don’t want to encourage that kind of promiscuity. Some things should only exist in one place, you know?
September 6th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Oh I just want the goombas animated so I can use them as buddy icons/avatars. I had no other uses in mind. Or if I may be more specific I was really looking for the sad goomba face.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Ditto the request for a higher res version of some of the backgrounds. Though I was thinking more along the lines of 1680×1050. Always hard to find those good widescreen backgrounds, and all the artwork from Braid is gorgeous. As high res as possible is always best - it’s easy to downscale something, but we can’t make it look any better.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Okay, I hear that more and larger sizes for the wallpapers are needed. I will try to get around to that soon…
Animations would be nice too, huh?
September 8th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Nice? More like awesome! We’ll take what we can get though…
September 8th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
If it isnt to much, a background of the inside of the Braid house with all 5 puzzles completed would be amazing!
September 11th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Glad to see that larger-res wallpapers are on the way, I was just working on making a background today out of them and was hoping for a bit more resolution. Though to be honest, they scale pretty well right now anyways due to the art style.
I, too, was hoping to see a few more frames of animation in the icons. I think it would be neat to make an animated gif avatar of Tim running forwards.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
When I stumbled across this, I got very excited, but I ended up slightly disappointed. I’ve been looking around trying to find the square, black and white images that are displayed at the beginning of each level. I thought they’d be in this, but they aren’t.
Is there any way to add those images to the briefcase?
September 16th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Yes, there IS a way! And yes those should be in there. I will add them soon. I’ll make a new post when that happens.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
thanks for all the artwork david, i was particularly struck by the hourglass/sandcastle picture. i tried to shoe-horn it into a wallpaper using MS paint, but it doesnt do the image justice:
http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wallhourglasscastlenj6.jpg
would you ever consider turning it into a respectable desktop background?
September 19th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I would love to see some resized wallpapers to use with non-wide screen monitors. I think Braid was created with WS gaming in mind, but a simple resize would likely make more than a few people happy. Gotta love the old 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, and 1600×1200 wallpaper resolutions. If you\’re already working on those, keep up the great work and wonderful artwork! Hope to see more of it in future games.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Thanks for the updates David!
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 am
Thank you for making such a beautiful game and sharing with us your art.
I’m entranced by how beautiful the game is, and looking for some Braid wallpapers. Too bad the wallpaper can’t animate like how it is in the game.
October 18th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Thank you for making this!
I have been “out of the loop” when it comes to Braid for a while, but suddenly remembered that I had asked for images to use for signatures and such. So I thought to check if you had perhaps made a few images available, and then I find this…
You are a great man.
I cannot thank you enough for this.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Hey David,
Big fan of braid and your work in it. I also do some art as well and was wondering what programs u used to create the paintings or was it scanned in from original pieces? ive been messing around with artrage and some older versions of painter but im not totally satisfied with the depth or breadth of either, photoshop also seems not very conducive to achieving a painted type look. BTW thanks for all the free assets too. very cool of you to offer these, and smart too, getting your imagery out there and increase buzz! nice. you guys really get it.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Thanks, nickthedude. All the Braid art was drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet…